Media, film, literature [2510-f2ENG1W-MFL] Semestr zimowy 2019/20
Laboratorium, grupa nr 1

Selected readings:

Christopher Eklund, “Comics studies” (2006)

Leo Eubank and Marshall Cohen (eds.), Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings. (2004) (frag.)

Jon Dovey and Helen W. Kennedy, Game Cultures (2006) (frag.)

Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture (2006) (frag.)

Henry Jenkins, “Game Design as Narrative Architecture” (2004)

Robert Joustra and Alissa Wilkinson, How to Survive the Apocalypse: Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World (2016) (fragments)

Alan Kirby, Digimodernism: How New Technologies Dismantle the Postmodern and Reconfigure Our Culture (2011). (fragments)

Jason Mittell, “Strategies of Storytelling on Transmedia Television” (2014)

Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Pat Harrigan, First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game (frag.)

Slavoj Žižek, “Welcome to the Desert of the Real” (2004)

A selection of media texts (films, games, social media)

- Transmedia storytelling

- Film, game and social media studies

- Fandom

- Digital cultures (digimodernism)

- Post-apocalyptic narratives

- Superheroes in comics and films

Expository teaching methods: participatory lecture, problem-based lecture

Exploratory teaching methods: seminar, project work

Online teaching methods: content-presentation-oriented methods, exchange and discussion methods

Assessment methods:

- continuous assessment (active participation in class) (20%)

- test (50%)

- in-class presentations (30%)

Assessment of knowledge (W1):

1.Graded final test

Assessment of skills (U1, U2, U3, U4):

1. Oral assignments in class

2. Oral assignments at home